A Quote by Owen Jones

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Owen Jones

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Backbone Ideological Society Unequal

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Owen Jones
British - Journalist
Born: August 8, 1984

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Damon Galgut

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

Nat Hentoff

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

Trevor Paglen

The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.

Guillaume Faye

We live in a very unequal society.

Jeremy Corbyn

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.

Henry Giroux

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Thomas Jefferson

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

Pope Leo XIII

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

Gloria Steinem

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?